Thursday, January 21, 2010

So, today, I sat with my oncologist, to understand what is going on in my body.

The bottom line: my cancer is under control.

I still have tumors in my brain, my lungs and all over my skeleton.

Thank God, there is currently no evidence of disease in my liver. (At least I got that one right!)

Both the MRI and the PET CT show the tumors in my brain are continuing to shrink. The shrinking may be a continued effect of the WBR (Whole Brain Radiation) or from the Tykerb/Lapatinib (which seems to cross the blood brain barrier) or both.

The PET CT also confirmed that:

1. the tumors in my lungs, which are tiny, are stable
2. the tumors in my bones are stable
3. my liver is clear

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Cancer History in 3 sentences or less:

Diagnosed with DCIS (stage ZERO breast cancer) at age 39 (June 2005). Three surgeries and 2 years later (July 2007)... I became a statistical anomaly: breast cancer mysteriously metastasized to my bones, liver and lungs. 2 years later (July 2009), we discovered metastases in my brain.